COLIN MORRISON
Nearing the end of this chapter in his
life, Morrison would end up getting
into several car accidents. The last
one being the straw that broke the
camel’s back. High on Dust-Off, Colin
blacked out with his foot on the gas
pedal while driving home from the
Metal Mulisha HQ, where he had only
just signed his new contract. He ended
up sideswiping seven cars, causing a
multi-car pile-up and hitting a semitruck head on.
As horrific as it was, this incident
became the turning point in his life.
After getting arrested, Morrison found
himself sitting in Los Angeles’s Twin
Towers Jail, happy for the first time in
a long time, as he felt it was all finally
over. Colin had hit rock bottom, with
nowhere to go but back up.
“I was so happy to go to jail, I was
pumped. I didn’t even want to live in
the real world anymore,” Morrison
says. “I just said ‘take me to jail’.
I didn’t even care that it was Twin
Towers, and if you know about this
place, you know it’s fu*king twisted. No
one wants to go there willingly.”
Due to legal technicalities Colin was
let out of jail only days after being
arrested, cutting short a mandatory
four to six month jail sentence. He
immediately checked himself into a
rehab center – and was finally sober for
the first time in over ten years. Fearing
the real world and the anxieties an
addict feels when getting clean for the
first time after such a traumatic drug
induced period, Morrison decided to
stay an extra month in rehab. Later he
moved into a sober living house, where
he continued to make improvements.
Being sober for the first time in a
long while, he was thankful for his
newfound lease on life.
“Rehab was one of the best
experiences of my life,” Morrison says.
“It was the first time in what felt like
forever that I woke up and didn’t need
to get high. I mean just to go u
“ I was so happy to go to jail, I was pumped.
I didn’t even want to live in the real world
anymore”